"This…." I, of course, wanted to rush over and kill that count but I had to wait. Things might be starting to change, and for now, I need to try to keep myself restrained. I looked at the sleeping fox girl on my bed whose cheeks were covered in soot and tears and felt my own tears welling up. My fluff fluff…. I couldn't save her parents even in this life…. "Atollie, please get me some of my clothes and a bucket and towel I will help clean her up."
"Alright." Atollie quickly did as I asked and got me what I needed.
I sat next to the sleeping fox girl and gently dabbed her cheeks with a warm wet towel. This motion seemed to disturb her as she slowly opened her eyes and looked at me. "Am I dead?"
"Far from it…." I whispered as I continued to wash Sophie's face.
"I'm not dead? Then… Faith?" Hearing her call my name, I froze. I looked at Sophie, who was staring back at me with eyes full of hope, and did not know how to react. When Sophie turned and saw Atollie, a big smile formed on her face as she jumped up and hugged me. "Faith!"
"Sophie!?" I cried out in confusion. I looked at Atollie only to see that she seemed to be just as confused as I was! "What!? How!?"
"It's a long story… but…. For now, let me cry…." Sophie leaned into my chest, hugging me as tears rolled down her cheeks. She was happy one second and then sad the next. She hugged me tightly and would not let go as she began bawling her eyes out. I gently held her in my arms and rocked her back and forth as she cried for who knows how long. I was not counting.
After she calmed down, I washed her face and had her strip down and wash up more before putting on a set of my clothes. Only then did I ask what happened. "So why did Freedman suddenly show up and burn your village down? You were fine the night before…."
"So it was you…." Sophie smiled. She then hugged me again while taking in my scent. A thing she has done many, many times in my past life. After a few minutes, she took a deep breath and began explaining things. "Since you were healing me, you know I was being beaten pretty badly. The people Count Freedman was sending out would harass my family and beat me. But because of my knowledge from before, I began fighting back when I could. Until early in the morning, before dawn, when those bastards broke into my home and pushed my father to the ground while stripping my mother.
"I had been trying to stay low so he would not notice me since, currently, my powers are not as strong as before. But I lost it and killed the men. One escaped, and then a few hours later, Count Freedman showed up and began burning my village. Humans demis he did not care. He killed all of them. My father jumped on Count Freedman when he showed up at our house and told me to run. I wanted to fight, but I knew I would have died. I am nowhere near what I was since I no longer have a system…
"Faith, that bastard burnt both of them alive…." Sophie pushed her face into my chest once more as she began crying again. My fists gripped tightly. I wanted to rush over there so badly, but I could not!
Gritting my teeth, I hugged Sophie and said: "You can live here. You can grow up with me. We will get married again in the future. We will always be together. When Adel comes to get me when I turn twelve, we will travel together. The three of us will once again be together forever…."
"Mmm…." Sophie seemed to have found her solace as she fell asleep in my arms. I looked up at Atollie and sighed. "How could she return?"
"I am not sure….." Atollie also seemed confused about this. I could only wait until she woke up again.
A few hours later, and after talking with my parents, Sophie became part of our family. However, I did firmly state that she was to be my wife in the future, which my parents took as a kid's words. But wait until they get invited to the wedding! Humph! When Sophie woke up, I had her meet everyone before having her eat, and only when she was done did I get a chance to ask her. "So, how did you get reborn?"
"I got an ultimate skill…." Sophie replied. "After you left… Although I should have forgotten about you, I have always felt things were off. I did nothing but dungeon dive, and after solo killing a boss, I came upon an ultimate skill called dreamscape. It would allow me to enter people's dreams. So, I used it on Adel, and well…. She still had all our memories. She was sleeping but using her memories of us together to live in a dream world. I only saw it for a few minutes before all my memories came back. It was then that I made up my mind to find a way back. I began digging deeper into my space magic and discovered that space and time are connected. I created a skill that would allow me to travel back in time.
"With this skill, I was able to come back to the past but only in soul form. My body could not move through the spatial tear I had made. But do not worry. Before I left, I placed Adel's body of that timeline into a space dimensional void." Sophie was about to explain more when Atollie yelled out.
"This!" Atollie yelled out. "You have broken the boundary between planes and used magic way above your being!"
"Yes… I paid a heavy price both times. The void was something I created to allow Adel to sleep for all eternity without her ever being able to come to harm. The Adel of that timeline will always be in a happy eternal dream. And they were very happy. At that time, I lost all my hair and eyesight when I put her in the void. Luckily no one had to see me like that because I quickly cast the magic to come here, which stripped my soul from my body. It was a heavy price, and I might not have been able to see you again, but I still wanted to try…."
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